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Heather Neill is a critic and theatre writer. She was Arts Editor of The Times Educational Supplement and has contributed features to The Times, Telegraph and theatre programmes. She reviews for The Stage, interviews for theatrevoice.com and has been a judge of the Offies and the Theatre Book Prize and an assessor for NT Connections.

Articles By Heather Neill

Bacchae, National Theatre review - cheeky, uneven version of Euripides' tragedy

Thursday, 25 September 2025 Read more...

Born with Teeth, Wyndham's Theatre review - electric sparring match between Shakespeare and Marlowe

Wednesday, 03 September 2025 Read more...

Nye, National Theatre review - Michael Sheen's full-blooded Bevan returns to the Olivier

Friday, 11 July 2025 Read more...

In Praise of Love, Orange Tree Theatre review - subdued production of Rattigan's study of loving concealment

Wednesday, 04 June 2025 Read more...

The Tempest, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane review - Sigourney Weaver's impassive Prospero inhabits an atmospheric, desolate world

Friday, 20 December 2024 Read more...

Twelfth Night, Orange Tree Theatre review - perfectly pitched sad and merry musical mayhem

Saturday, 30 November 2024 Read more...

Juno and the Paycock, Gielgud Theatre review - a shockingly original centenary revival of O'Casey's tragi-comedy

Monday, 07 October 2024 Read more...

Being Mr Wickham, Jermyn Street Theatre review - the plausible, charming roué gives his version of events 30 years on

Tuesday, 11 June 2024 Read more...

Boys from the Blackstuff, National Theatre review - a lyrical, funny, affecting variation on a television classic

Thursday, 30 May 2024 Read more...

Twelfth Night, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review - burlesque overwhelms the darker notes in this mixed revival

Friday, 10 May 2024 Read more...

Underdog: the Other, Other Brontë, National Theatre review - enjoyably comic if caricatured sibling rivalry

Friday, 05 April 2024 Read more...

Red Pitch, @sohoplace review - the ebullient tale of teenage footballers gets a rollicking transfer

Friday, 22 March 2024 Read more...

The Enfield Haunting, Ambassadors Theatre review - muddled revisiting of famous paranormal events

Friday, 12 January 2024 Read more...

The Homecoming, Young Vic Theatre review - Pinter's disturbing masterpiece is given a low-key revival

Wednesday, 06 December 2023 Read more...

She Stoops to Conquer, Orange Tree Theatre review - much-loved classic rumbustiously updated

Thursday, 23 November 2023 Read more...

Private Lives, Ambassador's Theatre review - classy revival lacking physical excess

Thursday, 14 September 2023 Read more...

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